HONG KONG: Not long before he was reportedly detained, Miles Kwan approached commuters outside a Hong Kong train station, urging them to demand accountability for the deadly inferno that tore through nearby apartment blocks. “We all feel unhappy that (Hong Kong) has come to this and we want things to improve,” the 24-year-old student told AFP on Friday, while handing out flyers that called for an independent probe into the blaze, which killed at least 128 people this week.

Questions are mounting as to how the deadly fire spread so rapidly - and who should be held responsible.

Police on Saturday detained one person who was part of a group that launched a petition demanding accountability